been charged with a tendency to infidelity. Of late years, this term has been very commonly applied to all those who stepped out of the beaten track, in order to extend the boundary of present knowledge, and to inquire into the secret springs, by whose operation, certain phenomena were obtained, and certain results attended. Perhaps it might be well to inquire, how far the zeal which has prompted a charge of this general nature, was really the offspring of a Christian spirit, and how far it may have been the product of indulging a natural severity, and other peculiarities of character,-themselves at variance with that spirit, and in so far as this may have been the case, closely allied to infidelity. The effect of Christianity is one of meekness and forbearance of tenderness and prudence:-may the Author and his friends, and those who differ from him, strive earnestly to drink more deeply into the spirit which was in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to imitate his most perfect example. For himself, he can only most solemnly appeal to the great Searcher of